Russia’s military claimed gains in pounding residential areas across Ukraine overnight, and Ukrainian forces pressed a counteroffensive to try to take back an occupied southern region, striking the last working bridge over a river in the Russian-occupied Kherson region, Ukrainian authorities said Saturday.
A Russian rocket attack on Kramatorsk killed three people and wounded 13 on Friday night, according to the mayor. The city is headquarters for Ukrainian forces in the war-torn east.
The attack came less than a day after 11 other rockets were fired at the city, one of the two main Ukrainian-held ones in Donetsk province, the focus of a Russian offensive to
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